Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today that the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons is "increasingly real" and welcomed a visit by the US ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to be attacked with nuclear weapons.
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Japan, the only country to have been attacked with atomic weapons, has many times expressed its opposition to nuclear armaments.
Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, visited the city's peace memorial and museum today with U.S. Ambassador to the country Ram Emanuel.
"When the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia is increasingly real I think Ambassador Emanuel's visit to Hiroshima and his experience of seeing the nuclear reality will be a powerful message to the international community. I think our visit was meaningful." Kishida told public television network NHK.
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He said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine illustrates the difficulties of creating a world without nuclear weapons.
Putin[/B] has not directly threatened a nuclear attack. But he warned during the Feb. 24 invasion that anyone who obstructed Russia would face "such consequences that you will never encounter in your history"-a statement that some leaders took as a threat to use nuclear weapons.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russia would use nuclear weapons only in the event of "an existential threat to our country."
Group of Seven leaders warned Russia on Thursday not to use biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.
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